Let me introduce to you one of the best known and most delightful of the B-Western sidekicks. We’ll start with his uniform/costume — most of the comic sidekicks were dressed similarly. From top to ...

A Willard reader called on a recent morning, saying that he heard Smiley Burnette, Gene Autry’s sidekick, was from Springfield. He wondered if I could verify that and wanted me to write about him. I ...

Lester Alvin Burnett (March 18, 1911 – February 16, 1967), better known as Smiley Burnette, was a popular American country music performer and a comedic actor in Western films and on radio and TV, ...

Durango, aka Steve Rollins rides into town with saddle pal Smiley Burnette. The boys go to the rescue of pretty Kathleen Case, who is being victimized by greedy relatives.

Charles "Durango" Starrett and his pal Smiley Burnette go after smugglers. Our heroes travel incognito across the Mexican border to beard the leader of the gang in his den.